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Escape Velocity—How AI Will Achieve Peak Bullshit Work
AI removes the human bottlenecks that once kept meaningless bureaucracy in check. Prepare for a future of work where AI management is all bullshit.
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Jurgen Appelo
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From DAO to NAO
How combining human autonomy with AI agency is creating the next evolution of networked organizations and the future of work.
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Jurgen Appelo
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Are CEOs Stupid? Or Just Stubborn?
CEOs Baffled by Employee Hostility While Funding Surveillance Tech Revolution. It Seems AI Management Doesn't Come Easy to Everyone.
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Jurgen Appelo
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THIS Is What Comes After "Agile Is Dead"
In the Future of Work, Agile Agents Are the New Agile Frameworks. Think Algorithmic Management Combined with Agentic Leadership.
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Jurgen Appelo
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Kanban Must Evolve in the Age of AI
Why Linear Workflow Visualization Is Doomed in an AI-Driven World. AI Management and Leadership Must Recognize Nonlinearity.
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Jurgen Appelo
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Top 240 AI Books (Updated 1-May-2025)
I Spend Hours Fighting Nonsense. Will You Keep Me Caffeinated?
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Jurgen Appelo
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The Age of AI Will Reveal the True Agilists
Agile is meant to navigate uncertainty—the Age of AI will separate the winners from the losers. Love it or hate it, the future of work is with AI, not…
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Jurgen Appelo
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Everything Looks Great When You Don't Know What You Want
AI Agents Suck at Handling the Human Experience. So Much for Agentic AI (for now).
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Jurgen Appelo
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You’re an Ignorant Fool—The Law of Tragic Nuance
The thing about being a radical centrist is that you get into twice as many fights as everyone else. AI leadership about taking the middle road.
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Jurgen Appelo
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Fluent in AI or Clueless About People?
A CEO, a Memo, and the Sound of Screaming Creatives. (Agentic leadership is more than just rushing forward into the future of work.)
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Jurgen Appelo
The Red Queen Says No to AI Agents
So, when are we going to get true agentic AI? The paradox is that AI increases uncertainty, which breaks autonomous AI agents.
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Jurgen Appelo
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AI Wrecks the Corporate Career Ladder. Give Juniors the Steering Wheel!
Corporate apprenticeship is dead in the age of AI—unless we stop asking juniors to fetch the seniors’ coffees. Networked organizations must do better.
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Jurgen Appelo
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